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Jason Kenney’s domestic arrangements: A wonkish look at how MPs identify their primary and secondary residences

11 mins

Members of the Canadian Parliament like Jason Kenney in the days he was MP for Calgary Midnapore are permitted to charge expenses for a secondary residence, either in the National Capital Region or within 100

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 21, 2019

Duffy 2.0? Ottawa lawyer’s allegations about then-MP Jason Kenney’s expenses sets off Internet tempest

7 mins

Allegations about United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney’s Calgary domestic and travel arrangements during the years he was the Conservative MP for Calgary Midnapore circulating on social media over the weekend had turned into a

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 20, 2019

Will Canadian Taxpayers Federation credibility suffer from fine for failing to register as third-party election advertiser?

8 mins

The $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser under Alberta’s election financing law is a long-overdue official recognition of the true role the self-described “tax

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 19, 2019

Derek Fildebrandt and that rule of law thing: it’s for pipeline protesters, not law-abiding gun owners …

8 mins

It shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose, that Derek Fildebrandt has publicly gone all Charlton Heston on us. I speak, of course, of the recently rebranded Freedom Conservative Party leader’s Hestonesque Twitter outburst yesterday in

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 18, 2019

Former UCP MLA warns more scandals are coming for party as election nears … but don’t count on it unravelling fast enough!

8 mins

It would be a huge mistake to count on the United Conservative Party unravelling fast enough to blow its big lead in public opinion polls by the time the next Alberta provincial election is upon us,

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 17, 2019

Never mind the facts of Canadian history: Brian Jean says … Make Confederation Great Again!

10 mins

If former Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean established anything on Monday with his Epistle to the Albertans, wherein he set out his “agenda to move Alberta forward,” it’s that he remains a man desperate to

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 16, 2019

Blown off by Jason Kenney’s UCP last fall, former Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman heads for the Independent benches

7 mins

When this blog’s entirely fictional Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy “The Geek” Porcospino celebrated the first birthday of the United Conservative Party last summer by setting the next year’s resignation odds for each of the party’s remaining

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 16, 2019

No truck convoy to Ottawa? No trucks, no glory, perhaps, but no Conservative PR disaster either

5 mins

If you were one of those cynics who wondered how far that heavily publicized Ottawa-bound truck convoy demanding new pipelines and demanding them now would get, you have your answer: Nowhere. The promised slow-moving, horn-honking,

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 15, 2019

Everything you always wanted to know about Rand Paul and the Shouldice Hernia Hospital * but were afraid to ask

10 mins

I’m sorry to report, Canada, that Rand Paul, the nutty libertarian son of the crazy uncle of the American Right, isn’t the only politician to stumble into a controversy for getting repairs at the Shouldice

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 22, 2019

Jason Kenney’s domestic arrangements: A wonkish look at how MPs identify their primary and secondary residences

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 20, 2019

Will Canadian Taxpayers Federation credibility suffer from fine for failing to register as third-party election advertiser?

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 19, 2019

Derek Fildebrandt and that rule of law thing: it’s for pipeline protesters, not law-abiding gun owners …

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 18, 2019

Former UCP MLA warns more scandals are coming for party as election nears … but don’t count on it unravelling fast enough!

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 17, 2019

Never mind the facts of Canadian history: Brian Jean says … Make Confederation Great Again!

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Jan 16, 2019

Blown off by Jason Kenney’s UCP last fall, former Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman heads for the Independent benches

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 16, 2019

No truck convoy to Ottawa? No trucks, no glory, perhaps, but no Conservative PR disaster either

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Jan 15, 2019

Everything you always wanted to know about Rand Paul and the Shouldice Hernia Hospital * but were afraid to ask

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